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    themes of Cosi is the question of love and fidelity. This is shown in Act 1 Scene Two when Doug‚ who hates women‚ says: " Women like to pretend they dont play around but theyre just more secretive about it." Cherry and Ruth are very negative about sex‚ stating that most women work hard to keep men out of their pants. Julie thinks that love is "being foolish and stupid". Also the play that Lewis is directing‚ Cosi Fan tutte is all about love and fidelity. Lewis is also questioning the love and fidelity

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    Through the structuring of the play within the play in Cosi‚ Louis Nowra uses the characters of Lucy and Nick to be an example of sexual love within the playwright. The basis of their relationship as we learn in the end is only sexual‚ which enables sexual love to become a major theme within the play. When Lucy openly admits that she has “sex” with Nick‚ and “sleeps” with Lewis‚ it creates a contrast of opinion with Lewis’‚ and furthermore creates conflict between the three characters. This shows

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    seen by society as a negative form of difference and so mental illness patients have continuously been stereotyped and marginalised by society throughout there lives. The mistreatment of mental illness patients has been displayed throughout the play Cosi. The mental characters from the play create a theme of madness through there different personalities and quirks. The theme; mental illness and madness are developed for the audience by Louis Nowra’s choice of stage directions‚ dialogue‚ conflicts and

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    Do you think the characters in Cosi have changed for the better? The characters in Cosi by the end of the play change. Lewis‚ Henry and Zac are prime examples of how identities are inevitably shaped by the groups to which they belong. Lewis finally shows himself to be a man‚ Henry comes out of his shell and Zac starts his own band. Zac’s introduction to the reader as a medical patient who is unable to effectively communicate with the others makes him appear to be shy person. Most of the time

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    Cosi Task Preparation This is the question: Question 2 on Cosi Lewis Nowra‚ Cosi Act One‚ Scene One A burnt out theatre. It is day outside but the pitch black inside the theatre. A heavy door opens‚ a chink of daylight enters‚ as do three people: LEWIS‚ his girlfriend LUCY‚ and his friend NICK. ………………………………….. NICK: Smells like it hasn’t been used in years LUCY: Burnt wood and mould. Are you sure you know what you’re doing? LEWIS: I need the money‚ Lucy. [Nick accidentally touches

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    Louis Nowra’s play ‘Cosi’‚ demonstrates the bias of madness and deals with the subject of love and fidelity through the development of the protagonist‚ Lewis. Set in the era of free love and war the 1970’s‚ the use of dramatic techniques creates chaos and conflict as Lewis’s opinions of love and madness is challenged by his interactions with the patients from an asylum and through the production of a play-within-a-play “Cosi Fan Tutte”. Nowra begins ‘Cosi’ by commenting on the way society treats

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    An introduction to Cosi ouis Nowra was inspired to write Cosi after a visit to a performance of Hello Dolly with a group of mental patients in 1970. He worked with this group of patients to produce a version of Trial By Jury which helped many of the patients to “blossom” and also revealed the ignorance of a student leader who ridiculed the patients’ efforts. Nowra claims that the play is a combination of fact and fiction. In Cosi‚ a mature Nowra looks back and evaluates his youthful self and the

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    How has Louis Nowra Communicated Unique Ideas in his drama Cosi? Louis Nowra’s play‚ Cosi‚ is set in the 1970s‚ during the Vietnam War. The setting is in a mental institution. It was written in 1992. Cosi explores a range of ideas and attitudes towards mental illness‚ such as the stereotypical view that mental patients are dangerous and should be kept locked away. Another is that they are like a lot of other people who are considered “normal”. But the stereotypical view is generally the constant

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    CosiCosi is more than an entertaining comedy. It reveals the sadness of the lives of the characters.’ Discuss. Through the play Cosi the audience witnesses the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Louis Nowra has used black comedy within Cosi to allow the audience to abandon their pre-conceptions of ‘mad’ people and to see the characters not for their illness but for their personality. Because of this the audience is able to relate to each character and their situation and realise

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    Louis Nowra’s screenplay ‘Cosi’ explores the attitudes to and perception of the mentally ill in 1971. During this period Australia is at war and undergoing social reform. The perception of mental patients in the 70s can be seen as unethical and inhumane‚ with society grouping them with animals and locking them away in asylums with barbaric conditions. The 70s saw mental illness being neglected and kept in the dark and with movies that depict ‘mad’ people as animals; a negative connotation is placed

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